The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-21

JIle seven nuIuf60 an GMcuJF-ugne Qe
scendants aforesaid. tApplause,) VIII
squander in prohigaey and dissolut
pleasure IN the slums and purlieus O
/ foreign capitals, money that belong t
. those half starved peasants.
| j understand that this question o
home rule and local self-goyernment OF
the part of the Irish simply means tina
this land that was taken from them b,
force and fraud, by violence, to pay tn
taTdy wages of dishonor shall be re
stored to the men who cultivate ant
who ought to own it. In other words
it shall be fixed tenure and free land
and fair rent and nothing more. and
am here tonight as a citizen O
Kansas for the purpose of bidding God
speed to the men that are here. press
ing this new gospel of peace upon thu
| attention of the Tories Of Great
Britain. i have heard. sir. in various
quarters; / have seen it announced in
many rather consequential papers that
| this was a matter that concerned The
| British people alone and that II was q
violation of international comfy fol
! Americans to gather in assemblages
! like this and for Americans holding of
fetal positions to express themselves
upon the great question! / know OF
no reason, Mr.. President, that any
American has for being discreet In his
criticism about Great Britain. Zap
plause.l / am descendant Of Eng
lishmen myself. There is not drop
Of blood that flows in my veins-and
there is not too much anyWay-but there
Is not drop of blood that flows ia my
veins that descent How from an English
origin, but it comes from the English
men that three centuries ago fed from
the same tyranny and oppression that
Great Britain is trying to visit upon ire
land to-day. (Applause.l
am not here for the purpose or with
the intention Of violating internatiOna.
comfy. Laughter and applausel. l
hesitate TO believe that do so by ex-
pressing the convictions that l hold in
common, I believe, with 99-l00ths of
the American people on this subject.
lApplausel
! am not to be moved sir by the con-
temptuous and contumelious sneer
about twisting the caudal appendage
of the British lion. Great applausel.
There are Americans yet living who
saw the British army sack and plumber
and burn a defenseless capitol. There
are those who saw the capitol building
of this country in flames from the torch
applied in violation of all the laws of
war, in violation of every principle of
international comfy after the last
armed foe had retired. and who saw
the drunken and brutal commander
take the seat of the Speaker of the
House of Representatives and fill the
chairs before him with his minions,
declaring that they were the represent
tatives of the destroyed and ruined
states, and amid cheers and up
roar and din and clamor declare
the perpetual dissolution and des-
truction of the American unionl
l do not think that America
need speak with bated breath and deny
the brotherhood toward Ireland, or to-
wards any of the people that for CEN
turies she has oppressed and destroyed.
Not single one of the public buildings
in the City of Washington, even to the
White House, or Executive Mansion.
occupied by the President, was spared
in that sack and destruction that oc-
Cured within the memory of living
men. Who has forgotten, sir, either,
the conduct of Great Britain toward
this country during the terrible ordeal
of our civil strife [Applausel, and l do
not speak, sir, of the great middle class
Of Englishmen, $50, 600 of whom gath
cred last night in Hyde Park to protest
against the atrocities contemplated by
Salisbury and his Tory associates in the
British parliament, / remember with
pleasure, also, that in the great contest
that has been had upon this question.
when this subject was presented to the
British people for their decision, that
in the great monumental struggle that
on the question of home rule
for Ireland out of a poll of more than
three millions the proposition was lost !
by majority of only little over
100 900 lApplausel. No sir, it is not of
them that | speak, but it is of that |
Tory class of Legislators who have
been in all ages the unyielding foes of
home rule. In that struggle waged on
this continent. for the purpose of sec
uring the new birth or regeneration of |
liberty upon this soil, everything that |
could be done by way of governmental |
short of the open declaTa-
ton Of war was resorted to by the !
British governing classes for the pur-
pose of destroying this country and |
rendering free government upon this
earth a failure. They coquetted with
the South and deluded them with a
specious and fallaciOuS covert of re
cognition. And they violated every
of international law against
the North and when fearing the pre-
cedent that might be established
against them in the next war that they
might wage, unless their example We're
made the subject of Teprobation they
yielded to the demand for the treaty OF
Washington, and reluctantly paid us
SD. 500 600 by way Of reparatiOn, and
then they stole $500, 900 back again
under the award of Halifax, Eapplausel
and that So 500, 000 that cOmplaisant
umpire from Belgium selected ut the
demand of the British minister agreed
that was the price that we were To pay
for the privilege of Canadian fisheries.
rs everybody knows was award
ed upon forged statement of
4 In. anI flfI nc 50
much as the value of q cent piece.
I Applausel and that sum so obtained
by way of recoupement against the
award Of Geneva. Great Britain turned
over to Canada. who placed it in her
treasury. where it is held as fund out
of which bOuntieS are annually paid to
the fishermen that are preying upon
American fisheries and American COM
merce. So, Mr.. President, | do not
think any American need to be deferred
under any circumstances by any fear or
threat or apprehension of saying eX-
actly what he thinks at all times and
in all places and under all cirCum-
stances about the conduct Of Great
Britain toward Ireland. Your chair
man has well said that we do not ap-
pear rs the advocates of violence or
disorder. The true Irishmen Of this
country are not Anarchists. nor Social
due not to the red flag, but to that
bright banner that hangs above us,
which is the emblem of the glory and
the symbol of the undying honor Of
their adopted country. [AppIausel
No. sir, This meeting is no incite-
ment to dynamite. laughter to the
bomb or the dagger of the assassin. The
cause of Irish liberty was indefinitely
retarded by the assassination of Cav
endish: it was greatly delayed by the
explosion of the bomb in the Parlia-
ment house at L4ondon-and explosions
that made nations quake and mOnarchs
tremble in their capitals. but Great
Britain should not fail TO remember
that when the appeal To the sword has
failed. the right of revolution remainsi
Applause And it is just that Amer
ica should say to Great Britain that
Ireland can never be ruled by England
without its own consent. Applause.
and unless they learn this lesson, the
| light will some time break III upon
them, not through the windows of then
| stately and established edifices, but
| through the chinks and yawninc
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